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Purple-stained fingers signal the season

Purple stains are signals that somebody's found a good huckleberry patch. (Jaime Johnson)
By Rich Landers richl@spokesman.com(509) 459-5508
Purple stains are signals that somebody's found a good huckleberry patch. (Jaime Johnson)
Purple stains are signals that somebody's found a good huckleberry patch. (Jaime Johnson)

NATURE — Huckleberry pickers can lie about the location of their latest purple mountain bonanza.

But they can’t hide.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Outdoors Blog." Read all stories from this blog